Sudden Compromise

She stood on the apartment steps, she walked out alone with flowers
In her hand that came to rest over rain soaked gravestones
She walked on the railroad bridge,
slightly to the side of passing trains
Where no passengers live, full of black gold

But she can see in her eyes,
another sudden compromise, another reason she can't leave this town
And she can feel it in her soul, the rotten air, the dusty coal
The way it seems clear water pulls
you down, and you're taken by the ground

Scrambled down the rocky slope, she was bleeding from both hands
Clasped together in the hope that someone was listening
Sun was setting on the hill, she got up and started back
To the life of payday bills, walking on the railroad track
But she can see in her eyes,
another sudden compromise, another reason she can't leave this town
And she can feel it in her soul, the rotten air, the dusty coal
The way it seems clear water pulls you down, and you're taken by the

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